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Feeling a bit down tonight. How do you guys like to lighten up?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Meditation is the best for me. Not striving to get out of the "down" state, but just being there, present, watching it, feeling it, being with it. You know that sooner or later it'll go. Just as being cheerful also goes. Arts are also wonderful. For me it's music. For some people painting or writing. Those are ways in which you can connect with your feelings and discover some really neat things when you can really connect. You channel your complex emotions into creativity. I personally think that playing a videogame or having a distraction can some very specific times get you out of a mood, but most of the time it will just be avoidance of something that is happening within you. We are so used in avoiding ourselves. Be it a videogame, TV, a reel, a joint, a beer, a chat, whatever. For me there are few things better than what happens when you manage to overcome the boredom, fear, anxiety or whatever keeps you away from being just where you are and decide to just stay there and look at it with eyes wide open. Something opens. It's probably not fireworks nor spiritual epiphany, but a subtle thing that has the taste of real. And that real is oh so liberating.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Say "bubbles" in the deepest voice you possibly can. It always make me chuckle when in a funk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just wait until you watched a certain little Britain sketch. "Bubbles" will be forever etched into your mind.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You gotta start it with a positive jam!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Usually feel great after a cry, but some times I treat myself with a shower in the dark with music or a podcast playing in the background

[โ€“] muntedcrocodile 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A walk, copius amounts of alcohol (will postpone not solve), a joint with a favourite movie/tv show and a tall glass of choccy milk.

[โ€“] hperrin 4 points 10 months ago

Shopping, alcohol, gambling, drugs. None of those is my answer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Singing to your favorite songs

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Take a nice shower,get to yoga class even on the days I don't feel like it, treating myself to a nice book or random thing I want, talking to my therapist and letting it all out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound like it'd help

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[โ€“] Resol 3 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I listen to some Rick Astley.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's never going to let you down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

He's never messed around and hurt me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Seriously, two things on the internet can help me laugh uncontrollably.

  • Reading Garfield Minus Garfield. It's hilarious when you just imagine that Jon is simply completely neurotic.

  • Or, whatever hilarious "autocorrect" disaster screenshots will do the trick also.

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[โ€“] BigTrout75 2 points 10 months ago

We're all just feeding answers to the AI overlords.

Go goth and embrace the mood. Nothing wrong with being sad sometimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Listen to music.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm doing it right now.

[โ€“] BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 10 months ago

If you have a dog, wrap them in toilet paper. Ok it's not the best idea in the world but it's really fucking funny.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Starlight Brigade feat Dan Avidan

Its all about the hopefull and uplifting music, put it on and go for a walk, tell your family you love them, then appologize to someone you feel you let down. Cry, it only means you care. After, eat a nice home cooked meal and re-watch Loki or Guardians of the Galaxy.

Thats what I like!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just remember that everything is going to die with the heat death of the universe and I feel at peace.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

watching some avgn makes me feel better

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I gets me some delicious, fresh baked memes from above wholesome farm (discord channel) that I know won't make me feel worse because they enforce their utopian ideals through heavy handed moderation.

[โ€“] UnPassive 2 points 10 months ago

I usually eat, drink, and watch Youtube until I'm tired and it makes things worse. Instead, play loud music and do chores, then exercise, then do something productive that you enjoy

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I watch the Monster Factory on YouTube. Specifically the more recent Dark Souls 3 episodes with the randomized translator for all text. Always puts be in a good mood.

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